It is very unlikely that the standards bodies will let the Greek National Body 
add a different Drachma sign to the standard. They never used the one they 
have. 

I am the person who wrote the proposal to encode the current character on 
behalf of the Greek NB, and their original draft used a Wingdings florette for 
the glyph because they had no other. Why had they no other? Because they had no 
currency sign. We encoded an unembodied soul.

A while back I made a Proposal to change the glyph for the DRACHMA SIGN, in 
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3866.pdf which does show an actual glyph 
that was at one time used. 

I never had a report from the UTC about this. I assume they rejected the 
proposal.

If Greece ceases to use the euro and uses the drachma instead, and if they 
create any kind of symbol for it, I think whatever glyph is devised will be 
applied to the existing character.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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